The Georgian Orthodox Church attacks halloween party
The Orthodox fundamentalists in Georgia reaches for physical violence in order to stop events like halloween parties an art exhibitions.
posted on June 21st, 2009.
This is a story about the societal intolerance towards free thinking in Georgia, about clichés that the national Orthodox Church is trying to establish as national moral values and inability of the law-enforcing bodies to defend the right of free expression or even guarantee security of a person or a group of people who question or ignore these pseudo-values.
The investigation is based on a documentary video-material depicting instances of aggression against young people who in one case dare to publicly celebrate Halloween, an act of Satanism as the Church perceives it, and in another case, it shows a raid against the art exhibition where the artist dared to paint sexual parts of a body of a national saint. Both events had been sanctioned by the official bodies, yet they refused to stand by the victims of aggression just because the aggressors were supported by the Church representatives.
The film was shot and edited by Nika Lutidze.
Click here to watch the video.
Click here to read the transcript in English.
